Often with album covers by artists that feature in the folk/ indie-folk genre consist of certain designs and aspects surrounding the genre.
With a lot of older artists such as 'Joan Baez', album covers would consist of a simple design. This would of just feature the artist as the main focus, covering the majority of the front panel. Other panels would also have a simple design often being left blank as they featured the track listings and/or album production information.
In contrast to this more recent folk artists such as KT Tunstall have drawn insperation form this basic design images and have had them edited with the adjustment of light editing etc:
The idea of elements are often used by folk artists, often that of natural elements. Often those that are used those such as landscapes, rural or woodland. Pituresque images are used to show the genre of music played the artist.
The most common colours used on folk artists are:
-Black
-Brown
-Red
-Green
-Beige
-Yellow
-Orange
Computer editing effects are used to change the contrast of light and super-impose other images onto the cover. This often done for most recent folk artists. This can give the effect of built up images, or other effects that are created.
I'm pleased with your research into cover art and your evaluations of how artists market themselves. Note that the images are eye catching/ often provocative (note the recent Boby Dylan album) and strongly market the artist./
ReplyDeleteYou need to get your camera at the ready and takesome strong close ups of your artist in an appropriate location.